The anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church threatened to mount a protest at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, arguing that meteorologists are “stealing God’s glory,” Gawker reported. “Note to weather reporting...

British energy giant BP will pay a record $20.8 billion to settle government claims for damages stemming from the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday. n explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig...

The mother of Chris Harper Mercer boasted online about reading Donald Trump’s first book to him while advising the parent of an autistic child, the New York Times reported on Monday. “Fact: Before my son was even born, I was reading...

A hunter tracking elk in the Montana mountains said he fended off an attacking grizzly bear by shoving his arm into its throat to induce a gag reflex that would frighten it away, according to state wildlife managers. Chase Dellwo, 26, was...

A 34-year-old Pennsylvania woman was arrested after her 14-year-old daughter accused her of supplying the girl and a 16-year-old boy with heroin and injecting them with the drug, WCAU-TV reported. “Supplying anyone with heroin is a...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada have developed a potential new treatment to stop severe bleeding after trauma. It comes in powder form, and is made of particles that propel themselves against blood flow, delivering...

History indicates that there will be a dangerous increase in wildfires as a result of a warming climate, warns a University of Wyoming study that will be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Over the past...

President Barack Obama will travel to Roseburg, Oregon, on Friday to meet privately with the families of the victims of the recent mass shooting there, a White House official said on Monday. The official said further details on the...

The trial of an eccentric former Virginia political candidate charged with murdering three people over an 11-year period started on Monday with jury selection. The suspect, Charles Severance, 55, was indicted last year for the slayings in...

Anti-abortion Christian protesters in Norfolk, Virginia complained after a local clinic drowned out their attempt to harangue patients by playing audio from a popular science blogger’s book promoting atheism, Christian News reported....

Twelve Pacific Rim countries on Monday reached the most ambitious trade pact in a generation, aiming to liberalize commerce in 40 percent of the world’s economy in a deal that faces skepticism from U.S. lawmakers. The Trans-Pacific...

A Kentucky pet shop owner was nearly killed by a python before a quick-thinking police officer saved his life. Police officers arrived Monday afternoon at Captive Born Reptiles in Newport to find the 20-foot python coiled around shop owner Terry...

An angry motorcyclist who threatened another driver with a gun on a Georgia highway Sunday was allowed by the police to go free. According to Atlanta’s CBS Channel 46, a former police officer who filmed what appeared to be a clear case of...

In 1986, in the world’s worst accident of its kind, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant spewed a large amount of radioactive material throughout Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Since that time, authorities have permanently...

Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. The law, based on a similar measure in Oregon, allows doctors to prescribe medication to end a patient’s...